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Saturday, 8 November 2014

Boko Haram Bombs Bank in Azare, Kills 14, Scores Injured

Things just got even more nasty , as Bokoharam insurgents have decided to take it out on Banking premises, this is a heightened sense of threat! Banks?! Ha!

Read Thisdaylive's report below ...

what is clearly an escalation of its murderous activities, the
terrorist sect, Boko Haram, on Friday carried out more attacks in the
North-east targeting Azare, the headquarters of Katagum Local
Government Area of Bauchi State, bombing a first generation bank in the
town. About 14 people were feared killed while scores were injured.

The bomb blast in Azare came on the same day the sect entered Hong
Local Government Area of Adamawa State and overran Gashala Village,
killing four people in the process.

The tragic incident in Azare occurred in the early hours of Friday.
Sources said customers believed to be mainly civil servants were on the
queue at the bank’s ATM machine when a bomb was detonated by the
suspected terrorists.

The source said 14 people died instantly while scores were critically injured.

An eyewitness added: “The hoodlums initially disguised as normal bank
customers who had come to join the queue to withdraw money, but before
we knew what was happening, the suspects detonated a bomb.”

The source added that the bombers came in a Hilux vehicle.

"As I am talking to you right now, I have counted about 14 corpses. 27
others are on the ground injured. There is no rescue team around,” a
source told journalists by telephone few minutes after the attack.

The bomb blast caused pandemonium in the town, with several people running in different directions for safety.
Traders and shop owners hurriedly shut their shops while economic
activities were grounded. Commercial vehicles also withdrew from the
streets.

A source at the Federal Medical Centre confirmed that about 14 corpses
were brought to the hospital while about 27 critically injured ones are
currently under medication.

According to another source, some of the victims were civil servants
from neigbouring states like Yobe and Jigawa who withdraw their salaries
in Azare.

Azare town is about the busiest commercial area in Bauchi State aside Bauchi metropolis.

However, with the emergence of Boko Haram, the town had suffered untold
hardship with series of attacks thereby reducing the number of banks in
the town.

As at press time, the Bauchi State Police Command’s spokesman, DSP
Mohammed Haruna, was not available for comments on the attack. The
state’s government had equally not issued any official statement on the
bomb attack.

Sect Enters Hong LG, Kills Four…
During the attack on Gashala Village in Hong Local Government Area, a
retired engineer and three others were killed while residents were
forced to flee.

A resident of Gashala who confirmed the attack said it took place from
Thursday night to Friday morning. He said residents of the village had
to flee to hill top and bushes.

He said the terrorists also touched several houses including that of the pastor of EYN Church.

Another resident of Gashala, Mr. Moses Abel said: “We got the signal of
their coming but many people did not believe. Those who believed fled
to the bushes and mountain before the terrorists struck.”

Another resident, Goni Joseph said: “Before the attack, four gunmen
came to the town on two motorcycles and asked two young men they met on
the farm to show them the houses of three retired generals and other
prominent persons in the village but the young men said they were new in
the community. They later went to the house of a retired engineer and
shot him dead after asking him a few questions and warned other
residents that they would return on Sunday. They said every member of
our community who is not a Muslim should join their religion (Islam) or
get killed as they claimed the area is under their control now.”

Ealier on Tuesday, the terrorists struck in Gombe State. A police
station and Ashaka Cement Company in Nafada Local Government Area were
attacked. Five military men and an Islamic scholar in the town were
killed before looting its weaponry and setting the station on fire.

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